19 February 2018 | 21 January 2019

This month it was a real pleasure to welcome our very own Dr. Raminder Aul, Respiratory Consultant from St Georges hospital, to talk to us about ‘How to understand your scans‘. Dr Aul mainly discussed CT or High Resolution CT scans (HRCT), as these are the primary scans used to help diagnose Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD). It was a very informative talk,with plenty of helpful examples throughout, followed by plenty of questions from the group. It was also interesting to note that the CT scan was discovered in 1971 by Dr Hounsfield working at the Atkinson Morley hospital, now St Georges hospital. The talk gave us all a much better appreciation of just how highly skilled a radiographer needs to be to interpret these images.

The slides from the presentation can be viewed below. Use the ‘space bar‘ to pause/play the presentation.

The group also had a brief update on the recent ‘Call for Evidence’ by the Taskforce for Lung Health. The taskforce is a group of organisations and individuals, including patient representatives, with an interest in respiratory, working together to develop a 5-year plan for improving the nation’s lung health.

Full details on the Taskforce, and how patients, clinicians, researchers, policy professionals and members of the public can contribute to the call for evidence, can be found at the following link.

https://www.blf.org.uk/taskforce-consultation

Looking forward to seeing you all again at our next meeting on 19th March.